Chuck Berry’s “Childhood Sweetheart” backed with “Broken Arrow” was released on Chess 1737 in September 1959. This wasn’t as big of a hit as previous Berry releases. Again, we can see how Chess was using up different kinds of labels toward the end of 78 production. Some have the chess pieces, and others have the vertical “Chess” text.

“Too Pooped To Pop” backed with “Let It Rock” by Chuck Berry is one of the last rock and roll songs issued on the 78 rpm speed. Most of the later 78s were blues. This is a January 1960 release, and you can see here how Chess records was trying to use up their different labels – one with the chess pieces and one with the vertical lines.

What do you mean the last year?

Not covered in this site are children’s records (Peter Pan, Disney, etc.) that were issued on 78 rpm until the mid-1960s. Also not covered are commercially issued 78 records that were issued into mid and late 1960s in countries outside of the USA (India, South Africa, Philippines, etc.). Not even Canadian or British releases.

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